Saturday, June 24, 2006
We’ve had several questions regarding some recent issues that have affected Microsoft Excel over the last week. So, I thought I’d take a minute to review each, what the security impact could be for each issue, and what we’re doing to resolve the issues. We’re currently investigating three issues that have mentioned Microsoft Excel.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. We’ve see that detailed exploit code has been published on the Internet for the vulnerability addressed by Microsoft security bulletin MS06-025. So per the usual when something like this happens so quickly after release we wanted to highlight that fact, and let you know that we’re not currently aware of any active attacks utilizing this exploit code at this time.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. Just posting a brief note about two quick things regarding the blog. When we originally set it up we used my user account and it’s been our communal account for making posts. Unfortunately every post showed up as from “stepto”. That’s fixed now and posts will show up as being from “msrcteam”.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Hi everyone Christopher Budd here. I wanted to give you some information about the recent posting of proof of concept PERL script that claims to demonstrate a vulnerability in Excel’s processing of long links. As soon as we received these reports we immediately began an investigation into the posting. I wanted to let you know information we have based on that investigation.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Hi everyone, Mike Reavey here. Just wanted to let you know we have posted our mitigations and workarounds researched throughout the weekend in the for of a security advisory. It can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/921365.mspx -Mike *This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights.*
Friday, June 16, 2006
Hi everyone. Stephen Toulouse here. As we do every month, after release the Customer Support Service Group, the MSRC, and the affected product groups all monitor uptake of the updates and keep a sharp eye out for any issues that might be causing problems. There were 12 updates this month and of course we’ve been watching closely for signs of problems.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Hey everyone, Mike Reavey here again. We’re headed into the weekend and I wanted to check in and provide you with some more information about the Excel issue we are investigating. As of right now it’s still just a single customer impacted. But I want to reiterate that all of our various protection tools detect this malware and remove it.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
You asked for it. You got it. In addition to inviting a number of community members this year we also had channel 9 come to BlueHat and they created a video for your viewing pleasure. The 39 minute video contains interviews with the presenters talking about their presentations, background and research.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Hi everyone, Mike Reavey here. We’ve received a single report from a customer being impacted by an attack using a new vulnerability in Microsoft Excel. Here’s what we know: In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must first open a malicious Excel document that is sent as an email attachment or otherwise provided to them by an attacker.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Hi everyone, Craig Gehre here. It was tempting to make some sort of Cheaper by the Dozen reference or perhaps quote something from The Dirty Dozen, but I feel it would have been a bit obvious. I’ll just keep my comments short so you can get on to more exciting things like reading the below bulletins.
